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und wir haben keine Minute Ruhe mehr. Kann man von Paparazzi Blitzen eigentlich blind werden? Wenn ja, reicht mir die gelbe Binde mit den drei schwarzen Punkten.
Das Frauenzimmer hat endlich ihre heiß ersehnte Nikon D40x und die Dinge stehen schlecht für kleine knuddelige Fellknäule, die zum fotografieren einfach nicht still sitzen wollen. Erste Bilder Versuche mit der neuen Kamera können unter der altbekannten Flickr Adresse begutachtet werden.
Lilly hat heute morgen wieder das Duschwasser aufgeschleckt und Maunzerl hat sich von hinten an sie herangeschlichen. Lilly ist aber keine dumme Katz und hat dem Maunzerl eine richtige Watschn’ gegeben. In der Dusche stehend ist Lilly so gut wie unantastbar, denn sie ist die einzige, die sich in so feuchtes Terrain wagt. Eine richtige Allwetter Katze.
Peace out!
Of course you dispose of them in your household trash and hope they wont resurface again.
This morning as I was checking all the news websites to get my daily fix I came across this. It is equally disgusting as it is sickening. The Headline read “Scrunchies made from used condoms”. You would think I surely must have found this in some supermarket tabloid. I am sorry to say that this is not the case. The story is rather true and was reported in one of Germany’s most reputable news magazines “Der Spiegel“.
In the southern Chinese province Guangdong they are selling scrunchies made from used condoms. The colorful but potentially dangerous rubbers have surfaced in beauty parlors in cities like Guangzhou and Dongguan. At least that is what the Chinese newspaper “China Daily” reports. As the recycled condoms are cheaper than conventional scrunchies they are increasingly popular. Doctors are warning that they are a health hazard because they may still contain bacteria or viruses.
Now I am all for the use of condoms but only if they are being used in a conventional way for what they were originally designed for. Nothing like having this kind of news with your morning coffee. I am totally grossed out now.
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So sah sie in der Verpackung aus
Nacktes Gack Gack
Hmmm lecker Zutaten
Nach den ersten 45 Minuten
Schnell die Zwiebeln hinzugefügt
und gewendet
Fertig…Mmmmmh lecker. Noch keine Soße drauf aber suuuper lecker
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It is a well known fact that in comparison to the US Germany is a service wasteland. I thought I will share my hubby’s experience in a local restaurant last night. Maybe we’re a bit touchy feely after having experienced great service in Ireland but I just thought this was too much.
The hubby and our super nice neighbor that is also our catsitter (the cats love him to bits) decided to go to the movies. Our neighbor wanted to go and have dinner before at a Mexican restaurant located in the same building. As the hubby had already had dinner at home they decided to meet at 8:15pm. The movie was about to start at 8:30pm. Now the neighbor meanwhile had been waiting for his food for 45 minutes (that in itself being ridiculous) and was finally served just as he was supposed to meet the hubby. A short phone call later the hubby joined our neighbor in the restaurant, keeping him company and waiting for him to finish dinner so they could head on over to the movie theatre.The waitress came and asked if my husband wanted to order. He politely declined saying he was just waiting for our friend when the waitress said “If you’re not going to order anything I am going to have to ask you to leave”. Needless to say that my husband as well as our friend were thinking this was a joke which I can assure you it was not. So both of them were left with their mouth wide open. The hubby was then lectured how the restaurant was having to cough up rent and pay for electricity and heating…
Well whatever. As they were now running late for the movie anyway they paid, left no tip but let the waitress and everyone within earshot know they would surely never come back.
When they got home I thought I was gonna have a heart attack when I was being told. I felt like paying a little visit and punching that stupid girl’s lights out. But you can’t mash a brain where there is none so instead I decided to write an email to the manager and post a few bad reviews on the best-known restaurant review websites. With so many people staying out of restaurants in Germany because they simply can’t afford it you wonder where the restaurants get their attitude from.
An extremely modest man was in the hospital for a series of tests, the last of which had left his bodily systems extremely upset. Upon making several false alarm trips to the bathroom, he decided the latest episode was another and stayed put. He suddenly filled his bed with diarrhoea and was embarrassed beyond his ability to remain rational.In a complete loss of composure he jumped out of bed, gathered up the bed sheets, and threw them out the hospital window.
A drunk was walking by the hospital when the sheets landed on him. He started yelling, cursing, and swinging his arms violently trying to get the unknown things off, and ended up with the soiled sheets in a tangled pile at his feet. As the drunk stood there, unsteady on his feet, staring down at the sheets, a hospital security guard, (barely containing his laughter), and who had watched the whole incident, walked up and asked, “What the heck is going on here?”
The drunk, still staring down replied: “I think I just beat the shit out of a ghost.”
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As I was sitting on our couch enjoying the sunshine flooding in our precious birddogcat jumps up and pees right on the couch. Not just a few sprinkles either but a full-on, steady stream of pee. Needless to say I was not pleased. I had forgotten that I had put the laundry in the dryer which incidently is in the guestbathroom where the cat’s litter boxes are. They are scared of the rumbling noises of the dryer and it seems birddogcat had to go really urgently.
Normally I watch out that the cat’s have access to their loo at all times and when I put the laundry in both cats were sound asleep. Unfortunately birddogcat woke up a mere 7 minutes before the dryer was done. Bad timing. I ran for a bucket and a cloth and sprayed it with Febreze afterwards. I hope to have gotten the worst off and it wont start to smell but we will see about that once it has dried entirely. Anyone has a tip what to use on catpee? Any suggestions are more than welcome.
Thank God it’s Friday. I haven’t had a minute really all day so I haven’t been able to post anything yet. So we went to the grocery store after work and when we got home we made dinner. We had Spaghetti Bolognese. It is simple to make and I can prepare it in my sleep plus it is so very yummy and done the Weight Watchers way.
Now we are cozy on the couch watching the cat sitting a mere 10 inches from the screen watching The Fast and the Furious. I guess she is a Vin Diesel Fan. Yesterday we realized that our little cat is retrieving her toys. Though I have to say she has very few toys that we bought. She just finds random things in our appartment that she can busy herself with for hours. The other day she found a cable tie and she’s been dragging that thing all over the place. She brings it to us and we throw it. She goes after it, kills it with her hind legs and proudly brings it back to us. So funny. I just realized that we haven’t posted any pictures of the cats in a while but the little one has grown so much she weighs about five and a half pounds now.
The hubby seems to come down with something so I put him into a hot bath and sent him to bed. I hope he won’t get sick.
Anybody got any idea what I could make for dinner tomorrow night? I’d like to surprise my hubby with something nice that is not too time consuming to prepare. I should maybe add that he isn’t into fish or seafood. I do cook almost every night and I do make things from scratch with fresh ingredients but somehow I seem to have run out of ideas.
What newssites do you read first thing in the morning? I have noticed that apart from checking all my favorite blogs and my emails I visit more or less the same old sites in pretty much the same order every f*****g day.I usually start of with Spiegel online- a weekly German news mag that has a great website
Then I move on to The Times
website before I head to the gossip blogs
Perezhilton.com
Of course my reading may vary and as I said I spent time on checking my emails and all the blogs I heart.
Let me know what morning read you can’t do without and whether you are just quickly checking in or if you are enjoying a cuppa coffee with it.
No sooner have I finished my post about the blast from the past that trouble is on the step of our front door.
My hubby has great social skills. He is very generous and helpful. Always there for friends and family. Usually to such an extend that it looks to me as if he is being exploited. Which he certainly was in the past. He can see that now. It is by no means his fault. He was born and bred like that. Always friendly, always helpful but sometimes that comes back to bite you in the a**.
Here is an account of what happened.
When we lived in Ireland we met a great deal of people. My husband had many friends in his job and some of them moved back to Germany. So did we. We settled in nicely. Found a great apartment. Bought a car, furnished the whole place and generally tried to make our life as cozy and comfortable as possible. Now that wasn’t easy and I admit it was easier with two incomes than it would have been for a single household. Anyway. One of my husband’s colleagues (he started shortly before the hubby left the company) decided to come back to Germany as well. Started out in the same company that employs the hubby and me. Now we live about five minutes from work by car. There is very few public transport to that place but it isn’t as remote as you’d think either.
We helped him find an apartment in our house. We vouched for him with our landlady. We helped him move, we lent him things, we cooked for him while he was waiting for his kitchen to be put in, we lent him the car, we took him to work and back on a daily basis. And what did we get back? Zero, zilch, nada, nothing, nichts…Now we didn’t expect anything except a Thank you maybe. No thank you. No money towards the gas. No gift on either our birthdays though he did attend the party and ate his way through everything. No kind words. Instead we got to wait several times in work for him to finish with work before chauffeuring him back home or shopping.
As a thank you we learned from our neighbors that he had plans to move out again. Two months after moving in mind you. Now this is where things got ugly. The neighbors knew he wanted to move but he did not tell us. We should have been the ones to know first. We vouched for him. He has a one year contract and 90 days notice. We were pissed off. Not that he was moving but at the sum of all things.
We like our landlady. She is awesome and we could not have been luckier to have found her or happier to be her tenants. She is fair to say the least and also goes out of her way to help you feel comfortable. It was like a fecking lottery win.
My hubby approached him and asked when he intended to tell us he was moving. He said he wasn’t really happy there and he did not know he had to involve us in his decision process. He didn’t but wouldn’t it have been the right thing to inform the people that helped you first before telling a random person? Lesson learned. Life is private now and help is only administered to friends and close family or extensive examination of the particular case. Are we so wrong in feeling exploited? I can tell you we are certainly fed up.
